7.62x39mm. 20" barrel length. SN: 7001268. Blued metal finish overall with matte bolt set in a wood semi-pistol grip stock and featuring a stamped receiver with rivets protruding forward of the bolt. Short-stroke piston driven gas-operated semi-automatic rifle fed by an internal box magazine and relying on the tilting lock principle. Item shows the Chinese characters for "Type 56" on the left receiver followed by the boxed 0138 factory code, the same code that appears on the majority of known stamped SKS rifles. Item shows matching serial numbers on major components with a force matched stock. Importer mark to right barrel reads CHINA NORINCO SKS 7.62X39 D.I.C. INC.-VA BCH. VA. Lacks the folding bayonet, but comes with cleaning rod and buttstock cleaning kit.

Between 1970 and 1971, China experimented with methods of reducing the cost of manufacturing the venerable SKS rifle, which remained in production and service within the People's Republic of China (PRC). These experiments proved short-lived, with an estimated 6,000 examples produced in total, some of which made their way into shipments of SKS rifles destined for foreign markets. Concrete information on this rifle remains hard to come by, making it both a rare and an obscure part of firearms history.